A/N: This drabble will make absolutely no sense unless one has read the later chapters of Survival of Hope. This is what happens when I'm a Biology nerd. For those who haven't read it - the Spawn are the main 'monster' enemies that everyone's running around fighting.
Background: Despite living in another world, everyone still has to finish the normal school curriculum. Poor kids. Takes place towards the beginning of the stay in the Digiworld.
TK dropped his pencil and stared at the textbook, rereading the line over and over.
That's... wow, that's...
"Kari, the Spawn are slime molds," he spoke to her across the table, where she was also poring over a passage in a textbook.
She glanced up from her work, extremely confused. "What?"
TK decided to read the line out loud.
"Cellular slime molds such as Acrasiomycota live most of their lives independently as single-celled protists. However, if conditions are unfavorable, they can group together into an amoeboid mass that acts like a single organism."
Kari burst out laughing as TK looked up from the page. "See?" he pointed out, smiling.
"They're so threatening," she exclaimed, holding her head. "The Spawn, beings of the darkness from the Dark Ocean, as slime molds. That's disgusting."
"I know, right?"